Eskimo Pi - Keith Devlin (Devlin's Angle)
"As everyone knows, in the last century, the State of Indiana passed a law legislating the value of pi to be 3. Well, perhaps it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that everyone knows it, but most people do. But that alone is very odd, since it is not
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e Teaching Assistance Program - eTAP, Inc.
Lesson plans, examples and exercises, review checks, and other instructional materials, including audio downloads, on the language of mathematics; basic operations; order of operations and combining terms; fractions; multiplying and dividing fractions;
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Euclid's Fourteenth Book - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Officials of the Foundation for Old Occidental Languages announced today that, after a year devoted to authentication and analysis, they are prepared to release the text of a manuscript that appears to be a Latin translation of research notes jotted down
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Euler 2007
A celebration of Euler's 300th birthday in April 2007. Papers and abstracts from the various symposia and colleges are archived here, and further links to resources and web pages are offered.
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The Euler Archive
The Euler Archive is an online resource for Leonhard Euler's original works and modern Euler scholarship. The searchable database provides access to his original publications, references to available translations, and current research. Also available
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The Euler Society
The Euler Society was founded in 2002, and over the last six years has been highly successful in reinvigorating the teaching, learning, and wider understanding of Euler's role in mathematics and in the history of science. The Society continues to use
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Factasia: Mathematics - Roger Bishop Jones
Math essays organized into three categories: general (threads in the web of mathematics and re-use and abstraction); real numbers (a logical development, some history, and computing with reals); and history (a short history of rigour in mathematics, classical
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Famous Curves Index - MacTutor Math History Archive
Links to pages illustrating more than 60 mathematical curves, with information on their history and associated curves. Anyone with the Mathematical MacTutor system or a Java-enabled browser can investigate these curves and their associated curves interactively.
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Fashioning a World Brain - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
When Peterson read about a revolutionary means of storing and distributing information, he couldn't help thinking about the current explosion of activity in electronic publishing, the Internet, and the World Wide Web. But the words were actually written
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Fractions, Cycles, and Time - Ivars Peterson (MathTrek)
In ancient times, people had to confront awkward numbers in astronomical contexts when they compared the motions of the sun and moon. The unfailing, daily passages of the sun across the sky and the corresponding movements of the stars at night represented
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Fragments of the Past - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Historians of mathematics now generally agree that scholars in China, India, and the Islamic world produced remarkably sophisticated mathematics between the fifth and the fifteenth centuries. However, most would probably still argue that Europeans in
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From Counting to Writing - Ivars Peterson (MathLand)
Abstract numbers are the product of a long cultural evolution. They also apparently played a crucial role in the development of writing in the Middle East. Indeed, numbers came before letters, contends archaeologist Denise Schmandt-Besserat of the University
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Futility Closet - Greg Ross
"An idler's miscellany of compendious amusements." Math posts, which date back to January, 2005, have included puzzles, curios, and trivia from the lives of famous mathematicians -- all "self-contained and written as concisely as possible" -- such as
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GalaxyGoo
An interdisciplinary, volunteer thinktank dedicated to exploring expressions of science and math with online technologies, for public benefit. Read interviews of scientists; explore math such as the sine curve with Flash, participate in forums and blogs,
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Geometry Algorithms - Dan Sunday, softSurfer
Resources for developing geometry algorithms and computer graphics software: overviews, histories of geometry, a gift shop, and more. The archive of algorithms includes areas of triangles and polygons; lines and distances of a point to a line; fast winding
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